Thousand Sand Valley, also one of the Nine Great Sacred Lands, had no sect established within it. After all, it was a place that guarded the Nine Hells, where Heaven and Earth Essence ran wild and offered no benefit to cultivation.
But it was one of the Nine Great Sacred Lands, and also a place for imprisoning cultivators who wrought evil between heaven and earth, so the major sects regularly sent people to stand guard at Thousand Sand Valley.
They maintained a strict defense against outsiders, concealing the fact that this was a passage to the Nine Hells.
Thousand Sand Valley was an enormous volcano. A towering wall stood above its crater, and within the crater lay an endless abyss.
This abyss was the passage to the Nine Hells, leading straight to the Yellow Springs.
When living beings approached this abyss of the Yellow Springs, their divine souls or souls would be drawn out until they fell onto the Yellow Springs Road.
It was also a place where wicked cultivators were judged, and the cultivators sent here by the major sects were all disciples of less-than-outstanding aptitude, with no hope of breaking through to Soul Departure in their lifetimes and little lifespan remaining.
They lived here in a muddle, drawing generous sect stipends, yet never seeing any hope of advancing further.
When their lifespans finally ran out, their bodies perished, and their Daos faded, they would go to the Yellow Springs.
Thus, the sect disciples who came here jokingly called themselves both jailers and prisoners.
Everyone sat quietly atop the wall, waiting for the day their lifespans would draw to an end.
And the bottom of Thousand Sand Valley down below was a place that led to death.
That day.
A streak of green lotus sword light came from afar.